FRÉDÉRIQUE DEVAUX "LETTRIST PHOTOGRAPHY" (1981-1991) FRÉDÉRIQUE ATHÉNAÏS-DALMORE "JOURNAL OF A TRANSFORMATION" (2004-2025)
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE (composers and sound artists FRÉDÉRIC ACQUAVIVA and LORÉ LIXENBERG) are delighted to present every first Saturday of the month (from April 5 to Dec 6) a series of 9 exhibitions and events at THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY in London, after their initial location in Berlin-Neukölln.
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE supports the fight of all invisible, disappeared and marginalised people, especially AVANT-GARDE artists that are forgotten or still unknown. We are proud to welcome to London, for this 8th show, two solo exhibitions of two photographers of very different style.
FRÉDÉRIQUE DEVAUX (born in 1956 in Paris and from KABYLE ORIGINE) joined the lettrist group in 1980. She became an important LETTRIST photographer, creating around a thousand photoworks from 1981 to 1995, most of them with the lettrist Michel Amarger, her partner, as a male model. She also wrote numerous books, specialising in experimental cinema. After leaving the lettrist group, she stopped doing photography but will continued realising experimental cinema and video. Her photographic work, that anticipates the iranian calligraphic photographer SHIRIN NESHAT was recently put into light in Acquaviva's monographic issue of OEI on "LETTRIST & PHOTOGRAPHY". The vitrine shows her active participation to the french 1993 Legislative elections, where she presented herself as a member of Isidore Isou's YOUTH UPRISING mouvement, the same year she was taking part to the VENEZIA BIENNALE with the lettrists.
FRÉDÉRIQUE ATHÉNAÏS-DALMORE was born in Honfleur and started painting and photography at the age of 17. In the early 2000s, F.A.D. decided to change gender, partly because he felt in need of a subject - a model that would always be within reach. She then realised the first known art piece documenting all the steps of her gender transformation. Her "JOURNAL OF A TRANSFORMATION" is a ground breaking artwork, questionning the boundaries between art and reality as well as gender issues, realised during more than twenty years and, if partly shown in Barcelona, Paris and Toulouse, exhibited for the first time in London.
In the vitrine, one can discover another dimension of FRÉDÉRIQUE ATHÉNAÏS-DALMORE with her striking and surconceptual work from 2021 titled "15F Le Verseau", a canvas deliberately shown on reverse, with the one word SODOMY written on the wooden frame.
MEET FRÉDÉRIQUE DEVAUX (AND MICHEL AMARGER) AT 5PM COME IN YOUR MASSES ON NOVEMBER 1!